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Example sentences for "conversation with"

  • He got back to his office and joined in a conversation with friends.

  • For relief, he arose and joined in conversation with a few friends who were drinking.

  • He came over, and was about to begin a conversation with her, when a knock came at their door.

  • He informed him that, in a conversation with Mr. Van Ness at the time of receiving the last letter (No.

  • Returning home, and pondering on the subject most profoundly for full five minutes, I boldly took up my pen, and wrote le pere that I wished a few minutes' conversation with him at his own house in the course of the day.

  • On the Wednesday preceding the termination of the election, Colonel Josiah Parker asked a conversation with me in private.

  • I lodged with Mr. Jefferson, and that night had a conversation with him, without his having the remotest idea of my object.

  • I was seated on the piazza engaged in conversation with my staff when Sherman came up.

  • One of the girls confided to me today that walking on and over-waxed floor was nothing to attempting an equal footing in conversation with you.

  • I have never happened to hold a conversation with a man on the powers of Dr.

  • Lemereier, in a conversation with Bonaparte a few days before the foundation of the Empire: "If you get into the bed of the Bourbons, General, you will not lie in it ten year.

  • One may quote Latin in conversation with a bishop without being thought a prig.

  • Mr. Courtland was looking directly at her; Mr. Holland was pretending to be engrossed in conversation with a man in one of the end stalls.

  • In a letter to the Times and in conversation with a bishop are the only two occasions in these unclassical days when one may safely quote Latin or Greek.

  • I tried to begin a conversation with him, but he did not respond.

  • It was difficult for me, a man dressed like a tramp, with a porter's knot over my shoulders, and grimy with coal dust, to open up a conversation with such a dandy.

  • I seated myself with my bread and water-melon not far from him, and began to eat, scrutinizing him and devising some suitable pretext for beginning a conversation with him.

  • He seemed to have forgotten the soldier and his conversation with him.

  • All of this together made a disagreeable impression on Katavasov, and when the volunteers got out at a station for a drink, Katavasov would have liked to compare his unfavorable impression in conversation with someone.

  • Even though it happened at times that after a conversation with him it seemed that nothing particularly delightful had happened, the next day, and the next, every one was just as delighted at meeting him again.

  • Anxious to throw some light on his own perplexity from the impressions of others, Levin began to walk about, looking for connoisseurs, and was glad to see a well-known musical amateur in conversation with Pestsov, whom he knew.

  • I have seen it stated that in conversation with a friend he gave this as his chief reason for adopting it.

  • The latter had been engaged in conversation with a group of ladies when his eyes fell upon Marguerite Verne.

  • It will never do to allow him to give up in this manner," said the true-hearted woman in a conversation with an old and tried friend of the family.

  • It was fortunate that Cousin Jennie was at that moment deeply engaged in conversation with a lady in the next seat.

  • About four weeks since I had a conversation with Mr. Porter, a respectable citizen of Morgan county of this state, of about fifty years of age.

  • In this lonely and secluded situation, without the advantage of company or conversation with men of cultivated minds, the arguments of Colonel Talbot often recurred to the mind of our hero.

  • Swann supposed himself entitled to poke a little mild fun at her in conversation with M.

  • I had the honor of a conversation with a lady of high birth and long descent, and, as I happen to know, of great kindness of heart, a landlady much beloved by a grateful and cared-for tenantry.

  • Had a conversation with a prominent member of the Temperance League, who informed me that temperance was gaining ground in Belfast.

  • Interview with a Baptist Minister--Conversation with a Young Man in the Baptist Church--The Presbyterian Church, and Dr.

  • Patton and his people, as I ascertained in conversation with him on the subject, are rather in advance of their neighbours in kind feeling towards the coloured people.

  • Conversation with her is carried on by means of the "speaker's" rapid fingering on her right hand.

  • He lives there as a lodger; and I was permitted to spend the evening in conversation with him.

  • And yet a conversation with her, as in the gardens of Blenheim, would have been delightful, and he had rather counted on it.

  • Theodora was seated on a sofa, in conversation with a lady of distinguished mien and with the countenance of a Roman empress.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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